Georgies puppet president speaks out, not that it will do any good.

Iraq president says US arrest of Iranian 'illegal'

AFP

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Tuesday declared the arrest in northern Iraq of an Iranian national by US forces "illegal" and again demanded his release. "We have asked the US authorities to release the arrested man," Talabani told reporters in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah in Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region before leaving for New York for the UN General Assembly. "Arresting a person in Kurdistan is illegal because his security file was under the jurisdiction of the provincial government," said Talabani, who is himself a Kurd. Iran shut its border with Iraq on Monday in protest at the detention by US forces in Sulaimaniyah last Thursday of the Iranian, Mahmudi Farhadi....

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